Maybe we should tell people to use Linux

I hate to say this, but PRIVACY IS DEAD... Atleast online... Unless, you are an IT expert and been using VPNs since 2001.

I made a similar point in one of My blog articles

https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/why-we-cant-just-protect-smart-people-from-data-tracking-c05d308e799f

That's why I demand (nag constantly) that everyone around me run Linux 🤣

Jk we're all doomed to live in an Orwellian dystopia

Dude, I can't even demand my health care insurance cover anesthesia for a procedure. Demanding anything from the government or a corporation is absolutely pointless at the moment.

My wife and I just had this conversation a couple days ago where she pointed out that she has all the same documents as me on her computer and she uses Windows. I had to acknowledge that was definitely a hole in my privacy, so we concluded the conversation with the decision that she will start using Linux too. But you're right, the solution needs to be bigger.

Using Linux does not make you safe either. Given that almost every server runs Linux, you can bet good money that most intelligence agencies have a few full time employees adding backdoors to the kernel XZ Utils style, and at least one of them has succeeded.

Good luck with that

If Linux became the most used OS on the planet, wouldn't more people be interested in finding vulnerabilities to exploit in it? People used to claim Mac didn't get viruses. But it wasn't because it was impervious; it was because it wasn't widespread enough to be worthwhile to make anything for it.